Practice

As an American Zen sangha, we use chanting, seated and walking meditation. But our ideal is to bring "the cushion" with us, to realize our intrinsic Buddha-Nature, and to save all sentient beings. Keeping "Don't Know Mind" is our practice, "How may we help you?" is our direction.

Meditation & Services

Typical schedule:

The Great Bodhisattva Vows (chant)

20-minute seated meditation

5-minute walking meditation

Dharma talk

20-minute seated meditation

Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra (Chant)

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Chants

The Great Bodhisattva Vows

Sentient beings are numberless;we vow to save them allDelusions are endless;we vow to cut through them allThe teachings are infinite;We vow to learn them allThe Buddha-way is inconceivable;We vow to attain it.

Gatha on Opening the Sutras

This Dharmaincomparably profound and minutely subtle.Is rarely encountered in hundreds of thousands of millions of ages.May we hear it, hold it, and maintain it.May we completely realizeThe Tathagata's True Meaning.

The Maha Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra

Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva,when practicing deeply the Prajna Paramita,perceives that all five skandhas are emptyand is saved from all suffering and distress.Shariputra,form does not differ from emptiness,emptiness does not differ from form.That which is form is emptiness,that which is emptiness, form.The same is true of feelings,perceptions, impulses, consciousness.Shariputra,all dharmas are marked with emptiness;they do not appear or disappear,are not tainted or pure,do not increase or decrease.Therefore, in emptiness no form, no feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness.No eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind; no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch,no object of mind; no realm of eyes, and so forth untilno realm of mind consciousness.No ignorance and also no extinction of it,and so forth until no old age and deathand also no extinction of them.No suffering, no origination,no stopping, no path, no cognition,also no attainmentwith nothing to attain,The Bodhisattva depends on Prajna Paramitaand the mind is no hindrance;without any hindrance, no fears exist.Far apart from every perverted view, one dwells in Nirvana.In the three worlds all Buddhas depend onPrajna Paramita and attainAnuttara Samyak Sambodhi.Therefore, know that Prajna Paramitais the great transcendent mantra,is the great bright mantra,is the utmost mantra,is the supreme mantra,which is able to relieve all sufferingand is true, not false.So proclaim the Prajna Paramita mantra,proclaim the mantra which says:Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svahaGate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svahaGate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha.